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"419" Scam – Advance Fee / Fake Lottery Scam

The so-called "419" scam is a type of fraud dominated by criminals from Nigeria and other countries in Africa. Victims of the scam are promised a large amount of money, such as a lottery prize, inheritance, money sitting in some bank account, etc.

Victims never receive this non-existent fortune but are tricked into sending their money to the criminals, who remain anonymous. They hide their real identity and location by using fake names and fake postal addresses as well as communicating via anonymous free email accounts and mobile phones.

Keep in mind that scammers DO NOT use their real names when defrauding people.
The criminals either abuse names of real people or companies or invent names or addresses.
Any real people or companies mentioned below have NO CONNECTION to the scammers!

Read more about such scams here or in our 419 FAQ. Use the Scam-O-Matic to verify suspect emails.

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Some comments by the Scam-O-Matic about the following email:

Fraud email example:

From: "Tessy" (may be fake)
Reply-To: <tes-sy123@live.com>
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 17:25:23 +0200
Subject: I need your sincere consideration to help me, please

Dear Guardian,

Good day to you over there, please permit me to inform you of my desire to go into this relationship with you. Though this letter may come to you as surprise, since you don’t know me personally before, but please kindly open your mind to help me and treat me like your own daughter and family. It is by the special grace of God that I found your contact recently, because it is going to be very difficult for me to find a sincere person to entrust on this urgent request transaction and to help me out of my affliction today. I am Miss. THERESA MGBOLI, the only daughter of late Mr. And Mrs. FRANCIS MGBOLI. My father was a Diamond merchant in most countries of Southern Africa and my home country Angola where he also was involved in sales of blood diamond for rebel soldiers who used the money for the purchasing of ammunitions during the war crisis in my country that lasted for 27 years. My mother died when I was a baby as i was been delivered and since then my father took me so
special. Before the death of my f

However that I should seek for a foreign partner in a overseas/foreign country where I will transfer this money and use it for investment purpose such as real estate management, hotel management or property buying. I am in sincere desire need of your humble assistance in this regards presently. Your suggestions and ideas will be highly regarded.

Now permit me to ask these few questions:-

(1)Can you help me for the retrievement of this fund on my behalf from the security custody and to help me to provide a bank account in which this fund would be transferred into in your country?
(2)Can you stand as my guardian since I am only 20 years old?
(3)Can you make an arrangement for me to come over to your country to further my Education and to secure a resident permit in your country?
(4) Can you honestly take me as your own and help me?
(5) Can I completely trust you?
(6) What percentage of the total amount in question will be good for you after the money is in your account?

Please, consider this and get back to me as soon as possible e-mail: tes-sy123@live.com, so that i can forward the documents to you which are now in my possession, only after we have agreed on the conditions for your assistance. My life was not safe in Angola so decided to relocate to the said country which my father told me the consignment was been deposited and held for safe keeping. I need to be out of here as soon as possible because now that my father is dead and with me only as a female child, my uncles and other surviving relatives are seeking to kill me so that they can have all my fathers’ properties. I really don't want to struggle anything with them in terms of properties but my presence will still be disturbing them. Thank God they are not aware of this fund in the security company. I am waiting for your urgent reply with your contact phone number, and then i can also give you the contact of the security company for you to contact them on my behalf as my guardian
and the receiver of the consignme

I am hoping to hear from you, best regards and I remain yours respectful one.

Theresa Mgboli. (tes-sy123@live.com)


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